[Axiom-developer] Re: GCL for intel mac

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

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>> I'm working with wine and mingw32 cross compiler at the moment with
>> success.  If this is of interest I can provide some instructions.  For
>> native builds, I can point you to a coworker who handles this for the
>> gcl project.
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>> Is this port important in your opinion?
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> Eventually. I do want to get a windows port running.
> Instructions would help.
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I think this should work for both Ubuntu and Debian cross compiling:

install mingw32, mingw32-runtime, mingw32-binutils and wine.

Now there is a bug in wine which they won't fix.  system() will run a
unix process, e.g. the C compiler, but not wait for it to complete.
Therefore before beginning to run gcl, one must cd into unixport and
run the following shell script:

#!/bin/sh

cd $(dirname $0)
while true ; do
      if [ -e lckk ] ; then
         if ! pidof $(basename $(awk '{print $1}' lckk)); then
             echo $(cat lckk) is done
             rm lckk;
         fi 
      fi
      sleep 0.1;
done &

One then applies a small patch I'm finalizing which detects running
under wine and waits on the lockfile when running system() when found.
Then it is simply

export PATH=/usr/i586-mingw32msvc/bin:$PATH
CC=/usr/bin/i586-mingw32msvc-gcc ./configure --host=mingw32 && make

Let me know if you'd like to try the patch.  If it passes all my
tests, it will be going into cvs shortly anyway.  I thought I could
get around the lockfile business, but the wine developers say this is
the best option.

We have a native windows user (Donald Winiecki) testing these binaries
separately (thanks so much!).

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>> BTW, axiom-developer.com is down again, and I would love to be able to
>> ensure that the windows stuff doesn't break the mac.
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> Sorry about that. I'm away on a business trip until friday.
> My girlfriend is working until midnight.
> I'll walk her thru the restart on tuesday morning.
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No rush, please only do what is convenient.  Just trying to get 2.6.8
out of the way at last.  

BTW, 20100701 being uploaded into Debian this evening.

Take care,

> Tim
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Camm Maguire                                        address@hidden
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